How many towns in the world have the same name as yours?

As a native and lifelong resident of the Big Apple, I consider 15 localities named New York to be 14 too many.

There is one extinct or conjectural locality whose New Yorkness I don’t grudge:

After Duke William II of Normandy conquered England, some of the displaced English elite emigrated to the Black Sea region, where they may have established a colony called New England or England, with settlements called New London or London and New York or York.

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